Please for the love of dog, point out where in my entire post did I say anything even resembling what you stated! Instead of putting words in my mouth, you should pull your head from your ass and read what I wrote, instead of making shit up.
I have been saying for a long time, that Israel is far less worried about the Iranian enrichment program, than the Arab countries - and this diplomatic cable leak has proven me right. Arab states have urged the US to destroy the Iranian nuclear enrichment program. Yes, the Muslim brothers. Turns out, there's more animosity between Sunni (Arab countries) and Shia (Iran) than they like to admit. Not surprising, violence between Sunni and Shia kills orders of magnitude more Muslims than West-East conflict.
I find it particularly telling that Saudi Arabia, which has itself a formidable weapon hardware, would be begging the US to do the dirty deed for them. I find it telling, not surprising: Muslim countries would not want to be seen in disagreement, and an air raid on another country's research facilities could definitely be interpreted as a "disagreement".
None of the things I have learned from these leaks surprised me at all. The candid opinion of US diplomats and politicians about some "allies" such as Turkey, is refreshing. Oh, I would love that kind of candor from politicians in every day life!
GEM was a damn good piece of software. It was actually multiplatform (CP/M on 8088 and 68000, DOS (any CPU), and I think I saw floppies of GEM for the Commodore 64.
Incredibly powerful considering the tiny resources it needed. One of the first DTP softwares, Ventura, was based on GEM for its user interface.
Like X, GEM isn't quite an operating system. It's a graphical shell. Well... more or less what Windows 1.0 was!
My guess is: none. The notorious mode operandi of chinese military industry is to buy one or two pieces of a particular equipment (for instance, the finnish Patria AMV), pull it apart to the last bolt and nut, and copy the design. Chinese are supreme artists in this, and thanks to their powerful and flexible industrial base, they can start up production faster than anyone on Earth (at this point.
Various countries have sold them military drones. My guess is that none of those displayed is fruit of chinese R&D.
Seriously, who TF came to the idea that all WANs are to be extinguished and only the Internet can be used for site-to-site networks? Maybe I'm showing my age, but I don't care: when I was working in IT (before returning to academia), private WANs were the norm, and nobody even dreamt of connecting any part of a company network, no matter how unimportant, to the Internet. Somehow, common sense wasn't snuffed entirely. Oh, and we did have e-mail, shockingly enough, which was nicely routed to the Interent (if the e-mail address was an Internet e-mail address).
I remember the T2, it was introduced while I was still working at this large telecom equipment manufacturer that shall remain nameless - but I'll just say it's headquartered in Finland. We received a server with a single T2, and our multithreaded Java application just got a 4-fold speedup, compared to a contemporary (for then) 2-box, dual Intel CPU per node cluster. The performance was actually 42:10 (arbitrary units). So I do believe there is some workloads for which the T2 (and T3) are ideal. The cluster was running Linux, but even the Linux guru in our group was sufficiently impressed, that he decided to lobby for the T2 solution.
Which was rejected for political reasons, but that's a different story.
And so, the cheaters from college are potential corporate psychopaths: not interested in anything but their own profit, and won't hesitate to use any means, legal or illegal, to achieve that. And to hell everybody else.
Robots are pretty much incapable of doing shit, with such a huge radio lag as it is found between Earth and Mars. Just look at the rovers: 50 meters in 2 weeks, during which a team of a dozen scientists and engineers constantly monitor images and telemetry, sadly NOT in real time, and pray to the flying spaghetti monster that their rover doesn't get stuck. Because if it does, it can't even do that very basic thing - going straight forward.
Robots capable of more than this, with functional AI, are still a few centuries away.
I lost touch with Sun microprocessor development since I left my life as an IT/Unix specialist behind me, a couple of years ago. I am pleasantly surprised to learn that Sun engineers have been working at it, though, and have produced a rather intriguing architecture with 16 cores and 8 HW threads per core. That's pretty fucking impressive, methinks, especially since it seems to integrate two 1/10 GB ethernet controllers on die, and the 4 DDR3 channels are not bad to have, either. Anyhow, I think this is the most exciting CPU, for me, of recent years.
This is not an issue specific to PA territories: in any islamic country you would be screwed if you logged in to Facebook as God and criticized islam. The same would have happened in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey etc. Sadly, the problem is with islamism (and maybe with islam).
Far from it being an universal problem, but it affects more than 10% of people, according to polls on CivFanatics and 2K Civ V forums (and not in the support forums, either - just the general Civ V discussion). IMHO, it affects so many setups that Firaxis must have known.
I feel that $5 for Babylonia was too much. But it pales in comparison to $50 for a game that continuously crashes in the latter stages of the game.
(This demonstrates the sheer vicious genius of the Firaxis product managers, who decided to release a demo limited to 100 turns - way before the crashes start.)
Thanks. I would think the story behind it is relatively well known. What I love the most about it, is the dual nature of the Japanese soul: on one hand, so solidly conservative (and patriarchal). On the other, quite nutty.
It is a spaceship factory, if a few tens of Km over the surface of the Earth can be considered "space". But, let me not spoil it for the future "space tourists".
I agree with most of your sentiment, but let's not forget that these bombs were defused minutes before going off, only thanks to a tip-off by a repentant Al-Qaida operative. And each of these devices had enough explosive to significantly damage the fuselage of the aircraft. This one was a close, scary shave.
Theaters can use cheap polarized glasses that indeed cost a couple of dollars at most. But the type of 3D where refresh rate matters requires glasses that can switch between black and clear perfectly in sync with your television, which as you say must be 120hz or more. THAT hardware isn't going to be cheap.
No, those glasses with switching are very cheap indeed - I got them for free with an old ATI All-in-wonder graphics card. I still have them in a cupboard in the corridor.
have a moon to stabilize rotation for normalized weather patterns
A moon that would stabilize weather patterns is NOT indispensable, for the planet to be habitable, even by humans. That planet's dwellers would have more trouble traveling around, sure, but that would only marginally delay their evolution. Read Baxter's "Manifold: Origin", for a description of just that kind of planet (it's not the main plot device of the novel, so I have not spoiled anything, don't worry).
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The Arab countries are so barbaric..
Please for the love of dog, point out where in my entire post did I say anything even resembling what you stated! Instead of putting words in my mouth, you should pull your head from your ass and read what I wrote, instead of making shit up.
I have been saying for a long time, that Israel is far less worried about the Iranian enrichment program, than the Arab countries - and this diplomatic cable leak has proven me right. Arab states have urged the US to destroy the Iranian nuclear enrichment program. Yes, the Muslim brothers. Turns out, there's more animosity between Sunni (Arab countries) and Shia (Iran) than they like to admit. Not surprising, violence between Sunni and Shia kills orders of magnitude more Muslims than West-East conflict.
I find it particularly telling that Saudi Arabia, which has itself a formidable weapon hardware, would be begging the US to do the dirty deed for them. I find it telling, not surprising: Muslim countries would not want to be seen in disagreement, and an air raid on another country's research facilities could definitely be interpreted as a "disagreement".
None of the things I have learned from these leaks surprised me at all. The candid opinion of US diplomats and politicians about some "allies" such as Turkey, is refreshing. Oh, I would love that kind of candor from politicians in every day life!
Do you know how cold the beaches are in summer when you're a billion miles from the Sun?
No, luckily I don't, but I surely can appreciate the unpleasant conditions.
BTW: you don't need to feed chili to your cows; they fart just fine with their regular intake of grass.
Redneck SUV-driving Rheaians. They fully believe that "we could use a bit of global warming around here!"
GEM was a damn good piece of software. It was actually multiplatform (CP/M on 8088 and 68000, DOS (any CPU), and I think I saw floppies of GEM for the Commodore 64.
Incredibly powerful considering the tiny resources it needed. One of the first DTP softwares, Ventura, was based on GEM for its user interface.
Like X, GEM isn't quite an operating system. It's a graphical shell. Well... more or less what Windows 1.0 was!
My guess is: none. The notorious mode operandi of chinese military industry is to buy one or two pieces of a particular equipment (for instance, the finnish Patria AMV), pull it apart to the last bolt and nut, and copy the design. Chinese are supreme artists in this, and thanks to their powerful and flexible industrial base, they can start up production faster than anyone on Earth (at this point.
Various countries have sold them military drones. My guess is that none of those displayed is fruit of chinese R&D.
Seriously, who TF came to the idea that all WANs are to be extinguished and only the Internet can be used for site-to-site networks? Maybe I'm showing my age, but I don't care: when I was working in IT (before returning to academia), private WANs were the norm, and nobody even dreamt of connecting any part of a company network, no matter how unimportant, to the Internet. Somehow, common sense wasn't snuffed entirely. Oh, and we did have e-mail, shockingly enough, which was nicely routed to the Interent (if the e-mail address was an Internet e-mail address).
Tell me more.
I remember the T2, it was introduced while I was still working at this large telecom equipment manufacturer that shall remain nameless - but I'll just say it's headquartered in Finland. We received a server with a single T2, and our multithreaded Java application just got a 4-fold speedup, compared to a contemporary (for then) 2-box, dual Intel CPU per node cluster. The performance was actually 42:10 (arbitrary units). So I do believe there is some workloads for which the T2 (and T3) are ideal. The cluster was running Linux, but even the Linux guru in our group was sufficiently impressed, that he decided to lobby for the T2 solution.
Which was rejected for political reasons, but that's a different story.
I have now checked out those videos on Youtube - and boy does this Ezra guy kick some ass! Thank you so much for mentioning his name.
And so, the cheaters from college are potential corporate psychopaths: not interested in anything but their own profit, and won't hesitate to use any means, legal or illegal, to achieve that. And to hell everybody else.
Yes, having a local human controlling the robots would probably be a good solution.
Robots are pretty much incapable of doing shit, with such a huge radio lag as it is found between Earth and Mars. Just look at the rovers: 50 meters in 2 weeks, during which a team of a dozen scientists and engineers constantly monitor images and telemetry, sadly NOT in real time, and pray to the flying spaghetti monster that their rover doesn't get stuck. Because if it does, it can't even do that very basic thing - going straight forward.
Robots capable of more than this, with functional AI, are still a few centuries away.
I lost touch with Sun microprocessor development since I left my life as an IT/Unix specialist behind me, a couple of years ago. I am pleasantly surprised to learn that Sun engineers have been working at it, though, and have produced a rather intriguing architecture with 16 cores and 8 HW threads per core. That's pretty fucking impressive, methinks, especially since it seems to integrate two 1/10 GB ethernet controllers on die, and the 4 DDR3 channels are not bad to have, either. Anyhow, I think this is the most exciting CPU, for me, of recent years.
This is not an issue specific to PA territories: in any islamic country you would be screwed if you logged in to Facebook as God and criticized islam. The same would have happened in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey etc. Sadly, the problem is with islamism (and maybe with islam).
Far from it being an universal problem, but it affects more than 10% of people, according to polls on CivFanatics and 2K Civ V forums (and not in the support forums, either - just the general Civ V discussion). IMHO, it affects so many setups that Firaxis must have known.
Glad it works for you, though.
I noticed the error, but regardless, the main point came across already.
I am only venting frustration for the slow pace of development, in the face of "we were on the moon in the 60's, for chrissakes!".
Maybe I should convince the AI to not use workers, either. Luckily the diplomacy system is so advanced....
I feel that $5 for Babylonia was too much. But it pales in comparison to $50 for a game that continuously crashes in the latter stages of the game.
(This demonstrates the sheer vicious genius of the Firaxis product managers, who decided to release a demo limited to 100 turns - way before the crashes start.)
Thanks. I would think the story behind it is relatively well known. What I love the most about it, is the dual nature of the Japanese soul: on one hand, so solidly conservative (and patriarchal). On the other, quite nutty.
It is a spaceship factory, if a few tens of Km over the surface of the Earth can be considered "space". But, let me not spoil it for the future "space tourists".
Is it powerful enough to run Civilization V?
I agree with most of your sentiment, but let's not forget that these bombs were defused minutes before going off, only thanks to a tip-off by a repentant Al-Qaida operative. And each of these devices had enough explosive to significantly damage the fuselage of the aircraft. This one was a close, scary shave.
Theaters can use cheap polarized glasses that indeed cost a couple of dollars at most. But the type of 3D where refresh rate matters requires glasses that can switch between black and clear perfectly in sync with your television, which as you say must be 120hz or more. THAT hardware isn't going to be cheap.
No, those glasses with switching are very cheap indeed - I got them for free with an old ATI All-in-wonder graphics card. I still have them in a cupboard in the corridor.
have a moon to stabilize rotation for normalized weather patterns
A moon that would stabilize weather patterns is NOT indispensable, for the planet to be habitable, even by humans. That planet's dwellers would have more trouble traveling around, sure, but that would only marginally delay their evolution. Read Baxter's "Manifold: Origin", for a description of just that kind of planet (it's not the main plot device of the novel, so I have not spoiled anything, don't worry).